Nutrition and Health Status of Health Care Professionals

Oral Health Status in the Iranian Elderly: The Role of Nutrition Status and Health Literacy

Introduction: Oral health plays an important role in determining food intake patterns, meeting nutritional needs, and consequently keeping the health of the elderly and their quality of life. Health literacy is also one of the biggest determinants that significantly impacts disease prevention in the elderly. Objective: This study aimed to determine oral health status and the relationship betwe...

Applied Nutrition for Health Professionals: Basic Nutrition

The concept underlying a self-instructional course in which a reader may assess his acquisition of knowledge in a given area is fundamentally sound. However, the attempt made at such an approach in Applied Nutrition fails. The book tries to teach basic nutrition by applying principles of biochemistry, physiology, and the other health sciences. In employing this integrative analysis, the book sa...

Cautioning Health-Care Professionals

Science and practice seem deeply stuck in the so-called stage theory of grief. Health-care professionals continue to "prescribe" stages. Basically, this perspective endorses the idea that bereaved people go through a set pattern of specific reactions over time following the death of a loved one. It has frequently been interpreted prescriptively, as a progression that bereaved persons must follo...

Hospitals, health care professionals, and AIDS: the "right to know" the health status of professionals and patients.

Vitamin D status in health care professionals in Qatar.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among health care professionals working at Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar. METHODS Between 15th January 2007 and 15th January 2008, 340 healthy volunteers were included in this study. Each subject completed a diary to determine the duration of sunlight exposure, and vitamin D supplements. Serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitam...